Dietetic AssistantinHuddersfieldinHuddersfieldPUBLISHED MON 10 FEB 2025

Calderdale and Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has an exciting opportunity to recruit to a post within the Eating Disorder team and will include the developing ARFID pathway.

This post is part of a service development to provide additional support to both the Eating Disorder Team and embed an ARFID pathway within it to ensure the needs of these children, young people and their families are met.

By identifying children and young people earlier and providing the right support, we can work with families to provide a dedicated treatment plan to be able to, prevent escalation and reduce long term difficulties and decrease the pressures in the ED and acute services. You will work directly with the dietetic team to provide care.

We are looking for someone highly motivated and enthusiastic who has an interest in Eating Disorders and ARFID. We are a community team who works weekdays and cover the Calderdale and Kirklees area.

Support is offered both from the team and wider service. The service support professional development. We take pride in working together to maintain a supportive and friendly workplace that enables our staff to thrive and influence positive change to the lives of the young people and families who have the support of our service.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

The successful candidate will be a part of a Eating Disorder pathway and will support the team in developing and driving this pathway within the Eating Disorders service. You will work with the dietitians and other assistant to ensure care is delivered to out young people.

Further requirements can be found within the person specification and job description. You will deliver high quality interventions following care planning, treatment and regular reviews (CPA) from the qualified practitioners in your team for children and young people who meet the criteria of the pathway with a diagnosis/presentation of both Eating Disorders and ARFID, with oversight and support from the qualified members of the team.

This could include daily meal support for young people,supplying vitamins, drawing up meal plans with the dietitians, support assessments and intervention, offering support within groups for both parents and young people or offering packages of intervention as agreed with the qualified staff.

Someone who can engage with people well and is able to work well within a team. You would receive supervision and line management regularly to ensure you feel well supported and able to deliver the agreed work to a high standard.

At the time of advertising, this role does not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. For this reason, unfortunately we are unable to sponsor anyone on a visa for this role at this moment in time.

About us

The Post holder will be responsible for the effective day to day delivery of integrated community mental health services within the designated team area.

The post holder will be responsible for the day to day management of resources and staff employed by both SWYPFT and integrated partners with agreed permissions framework to act in conjunction with service managers for both health and social services.

The post holder will be expected to have strong clinical and leadership skills and be responsible for ensuring the delivery of quality community mental health services.

The Team Leader will manage allocated resources on behalf of the trust and local authority to ensure that fundamentals of care are delivered.

Provide day to day management of all staff within the community team including sickness and absence monitoring, conduct and performance etc.

Ensure that team resources are deployed appropriately to meet the day to day demands on the service.

Ensure service provision meets the individual needs of service users and their carers within the personalisation, prevention and recovery agenda.

Ensure that the service observes the legal and philosophical requirements of national legislative frameworks.

Monitor the quality and appropriateness of service provision.

Monitor team budgets and take measures to ensure that they remain within agreed establishments, alerting the budget holder of current or expected budget pressures.

In conjunction with the local funding agreements, authorise appropriate use of community care budgets to purchase community care packages which have been developed thorough quality assessment and care planning process.

Ensure the provision of supervision and caseload management for team members in line with appropriate line management structure.

Ensure staff management and appraisal systems are implemented and monitored as required by the trust and local authority.

Ensure that team members meet professional and statutory obligations and comply with trust and local authority policies and procedures.

Ensure that trust and local authority performance requirements are met and necessary data is collected, using electronic information as required.

Ensure appropriate trust and local authority procedures are carried out under the agreed multi agency safeguarding procedures.

Ensure service user and carer influence and involvement in planning and evaluating interventions and services.

Participate in local service planning and development.

Lead in the recruitment and retention of staff within the team.

Undertake HR and system investigations and write reports that will evidence the investigation and support higher level decision making.

The Team Leader will use a range of positive behaviours and leadership styles to influence others in the provision of high quality community mental health service, working collaboratively to achieve trust, local authority and service objectives.

Provide a visible, accessible and authoritative presence to which staff, service users, carers and advocates can turn to for assistance, advice and support.

Use problem solving skills and empowerment to resolve issues.

Support staff in the development of their new ideas, strategies and quality initiatives.

Make recommendations for change in clinical practice and lead implementation of changes in conjunction with team and the general manager.

Take an active role in leading the development of integrated community teams.

The team manager will support and coordinate the clinical development of staff and the team in line with current policy, trust and local authority guidance.

Foster an environment which values and encourages evidence based practice, research, clinical audit, service development and evaluation.

Work in conjunction with professional leads across health and social care to ensure appropriate training and learning opportunities are facilitated for staff working within community services.

Develop / utilise appropriate networks at local and regional level to develop and promote personalisation, prevention and recovery approaches in community services.

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